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US 5,325,812 AGranted
Substrate holding and rotating arrangement for vacuum processes
AssigneeBalzers Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsFrancis Thiebaud, Friedrich Stingl
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Abstract
In order to dispose substrates, such as lenses, having different sizes in a working installation, a holding arrangement comprises a spring clasp (3) provided for the clamping holding of the substrates or lenses, which spring clasp is suitable for disposition in a holding device (9) of the arrangement.
Claims8
Arrangement for holding essentially flat substrates having different sizes for being disposed in a vacuum working installation comprising:
- an outer, essentially rigid holding device (9);
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- a spring clasp (3) having two ends which can be placed into the holding device (9) having a plurality of receivers (11,13) for holding a substrate (1), the spring clasp (3) holding the substrate (1) according to a peripheral contour of a substrate having an angular, oval or at least nearly circular shape, and a holding element (5) at each end of the clasp for clamping in the substrate, the spring clasp (3) having at least one essentially outwardly directed support element (7) for supporting the spring clasp together with the holding element (5) in the holding device (9) or on the receivers (11, 13).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.